Avicenna
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Ibn Sīnā · raʼīsuhum · the author of the Qānūn · the chief of the philosophers · their chief · ابن سينا · رئيسهم
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The philosopher-physician whose Canon of Medicine is the unnamed but unmistakable work the author was sent to read with Ibn Hubal.
Then he sent me travelling to Ibn Hubal the physician, that I might read the Qānūn with him;
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The chief of the philosophers (raʼīs), the figure standardly designated by this epithet in Arabic philosophical polemic and to whom the doctrine of divine knowledge by irtisām al-ṣuwar, the impression of intelligible forms in the divine essence, is here attributed as the head of the school ʻAbduh's imitative philosophers follow.
The imitators of the philosophers (*ḥukamāʼ*) have said — and it is the view their chief adopted — that the Creator's knowledge, exalted be He, of universals (*kulliyyāt*) is by the impression of forms (*irtisām al-ṣuwar*) in His essence.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Persian philosopher-physician cited twice as the representative Islamic authority for pre-modern faculty psychology: that each external sense faculty sits in its own instrument, and that memory (al-dhākirah) is one independent faculty with a determinate seat in the brain.
it is not a single independent cerebral function having a particular delimited place, as the ancients and the philosophers of Islam, such as Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd al-Andalusī (1) and others, held.
the seeing faculty is lodged in the eye, the hearing faculty in the ear, and so too the other three faculties, without the cerebrum, its vesicles, and the nerve fibres that bind the centres one to another having any part in their action.